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Books

The Charlton Canadian Football Card Price Guide

Charlton CFL Guide
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4th Edition

Although the Canadian Football League is not well known outside of our North Country neighbor, the hobby of collecting CFL cards is alive and thriving. The 4th Edition of THE CHARLTON CANADIAN FOOTBALL CARD PRICE GUIDE is a concise, top notch compendium to CFL cards that covers all the bases and then some.

Football fans and card collectors who follow the CFL know that the wild, three-down game boasts a long history of outstanding players. The hobby of CFL card collecting likewise features some great cards.

From post World War II stars like Russ Jackson, Jackie Parker, Normie Kwong, and Angelo Mosca, to more modern attractions like Americans Joe Theismann, Warren Moon, and Doug Flutie, the CFL has seen it all. This 4th Ed. guide by W. K. Cross and Richard Scott is an essential information source for collectors wishing to broaden their hobby focus to include our Canadian gridiron cousins.

Arranged chronologically, complete checklists of the major sets and suggested prices are included throughout. The alphabetical checklist at the end, showing the colleges attended by every CFL player who has a card, is a feature of special interest to alumni collectors. All in all, this is a superior price guide to a small, fascinating hobby, reasonably priced and attractively bound.

By Mike Bonner, author of COLLECTING FOOTBALL CARDS, A COMPLETE GUIDE WITH PRICES. (Published by Krause Publications.)






Games

Air Combat Classics

Air Combat
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Lucas Arts

This is a three-game set originally sold by Lucas Arts, the game division of Lucas Films, Ltd. When it came out in the early 1990s, it was on the leading edge of playability, graphics, and historical accuracy. While it is no longer distinguished for its graphics, the games in this set are still very fine.






Films

It's A Gift

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Film Classics

IT'S A GIFT is probably the best of the films W. C. Fields produced during his career. Issued in 1934, it brought together in one perfect package all of this eccentric comedian's greatest foils--bratty children, overbearing wives, and aggravating inanimate objects.